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Cassidy Springfield writes travel reviews, New Adult Romance and Coming of Age novels. Dog-lover, adventurer, dreamer, and stargazer. Life is too short to waste on anything that doesn't ignite a fire in your soul.

Friday, July 1, 2016

A Summer Love Affair in Italy #4ofJulyRomance #RomanceNovels

Excerpt of book one of the two-part romance series, In Between (currently .99 sale!)

Jacques led them around the corner before pulling her into a
doorway of a random building, pressing her back against the bricks, and leaning
against her. "Can I kiss you or do I need to wait for a more appro—"

She kissed him—hard—and silenced his words. Gentlemen were
overrated. Senses overrun with wine, jetlag, and him, she fisted her hands in
the material of his shirt to remain standing as her legs trembled with desire.

He slipped his hand behind her neck and deepened the kiss with his
tongue while his other hand moved behind her waist to hold her as close as they
could be without getting naked.

Her panties melted to her skin. She wanted to fuck him then and
now. It didn't feel like they'd met only hours ago. Kissing him, holding him,
being with him felt like the most natural thing in the world.

"I've been wanting to do that since you looked up from my
lap," he muttered against her lips.

She laughed and opened her eyes. "Not my best moment."

"You got my attention." He smiled before kissing her
again.

He tasted like wine and all things deliciously tempting. She
teased her tongue against his, her hands moving over his shoulders with
appreciation. She'd seen the muscles hidden beneath his shirt and wanted to
sink her teeth into his skin.

When he muttered in French before sliding his mouth along her
neck, she smiled against his hair. She didn't need to speak his language to
know they were communicating perfectly.

"We are dangerously exposed," she said when a group of
laughing strangers passed them on the street.

He looked up, smiled, and framed her face with the palm of her
hand. "I like living dangerously. What about you? What do you like?"

"I like this." She dropped the back of her head back
against the brick and observed him through narrowed eyes. Hands still on his
shoulders, she smoothed them down the front of his chest and grinned. "I
like you."

He winked, sighed, and stepped back from her. "I don't know
what I'm going to do about you, Jessica Moriarty. I sense trouble ahead."

"I think you know exactly what to do with me, Jacques
Sinclair." Feeling like a bird freed from its cage and soaring toward the
sky, she grabbed his hand and yanked him back against her. "One more kiss
before dinner."

"You are the most dangerous kind of woman." He paused a
fraction above her lips and looked her in the eye. "And I am the most
dangerous type of man."

"Are you? Why do you say that?"

"Because I have nothing to offer and nothing to lose."

Heartbeat shook her eardrums. He was like no one she'd ever met
before, mysterious and foreign with confidence oozing from his pores.

"Neither do I. Not a care in the world," she lied.

"This will be fun."

"Oh, I have no doubt."

From the back cover...

In between responsibilities and
dreams...

Jessica Moriarty has always played by
the rules, but for once in her life, she's doing exactly as she pleases. In
between graduate school and 'real life', she's in Florence, Italy, indulging
her love of art and abandoning inhibitions.

Meeting Jacques Sinclair rocks her off
center. Whereas rules and living up to expectations have dictated her life, he
is the opposite. A rebel. A photographer. A man who lives for the moment. He
sweeps her up into a riveting romance that makes her question all she's ever believed
to be true.

The drum of old commitments echo
through her heart as time ticks away. Will the crush of 'real life' undermine
the love she's found in between...?

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